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Come Down With Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-11

Pastor Bob Hiller
12/7/2014

Series: come-down

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Isaiah 40:1-2 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

1. The removal of an ____________ between two parties produces ____________.

2. To find comfort in anything besides ____________ is ____________.

3. Unlike the ____________ comforts of this world, God's promise of comfort is ____________.


Scripture Readings
Isaiah 40:1-11
2 Peter 3:8-14
Mark 1:1-8


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In the last chapter of Luke [24:27], Christ commands the preaching of repentance the forgiveness of sins in his name. The gospel accuses all people of being under sin and subject to eternal wrath and death and for Christ's sake offers the forgiveness of sins and justification, which are received by faith. The proclamation of repentance, which accuses us, terrifies consciences with genuine and serious terrors. In the midst of these, hearts must once again receive consolation. This happens when they believe the promise of Christ, namely, that on his account we have the forgiveness of sins. This faith, which arises and consoles in the midst of those fears, receives the forgiveness of sins, justifies us, and makes alive. For this consolation is a new and spiritual life.

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